Rectum, hell! It killed him.
Back in 2006, Garrison Keillor posted a piece in Salon.com, titled "Guns on a Plane". The way he wrote it was, as usual for him, tongue-in-cheek and satirical. The verbal picture he painted sounded more like Knob Creek than the inside of a plane. Of course, I actually agreed with his basic premise. I just think there should be some restrictions, to whit: having a CHL, and using frangible ammo only. The whole piece is worth reading, for its lambasting of the HeimatSicherheitsDienst* mentality.
The pull-quote that I flashed back to, this week, though, is this:
"God forbid, somebody shows up at an airport somewhere in the world with an explosive tucked up in his lower colon. The Achtung people will come up with some new security procedures that will effectively kill airline travel, and then this enormous bureaucracy can turn its attention to the nation's highways. Pull over at the checkpoint, get out of the car, open the trunk, take off your shoes, put your hands on the top of the car, turn your head to the right, and cough."
Keillor was referring, of course, to shoe removal and zip-locking of liquids. Unfortunately, if there's a bad idea floating around out in the universe, it will find its way into some idiot's head. From t'other day's Strategypage.com briefing in my email:
Rectum Suicide Bomber
October 6, 2009
The following document which you can download describes an attempt on the life of the Assistant Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef. On 27 August 2009 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia a suicide bomber tried to assassinate the Prince by detonating a bomb that he had concealed in his rectal cavity. The Prince survived. Needless to say the bomber gave new meaning to the phrase "blow it out your butt." WARNING: The end of the document contains very graphic pictures of the remains of the "butt bomber."
Rectal Bomber Document
Gods help us all.
*Term first coined, AFAIK, by Scott Bieser.
The pull-quote that I flashed back to, this week, though, is this:
"God forbid, somebody shows up at an airport somewhere in the world with an explosive tucked up in his lower colon. The Achtung people will come up with some new security procedures that will effectively kill airline travel, and then this enormous bureaucracy can turn its attention to the nation's highways. Pull over at the checkpoint, get out of the car, open the trunk, take off your shoes, put your hands on the top of the car, turn your head to the right, and cough."
Keillor was referring, of course, to shoe removal and zip-locking of liquids. Unfortunately, if there's a bad idea floating around out in the universe, it will find its way into some idiot's head. From t'other day's Strategypage.com briefing in my email:
Rectum Suicide Bomber
October 6, 2009
The following document which you can download describes an attempt on the life of the Assistant Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef. On 27 August 2009 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia a suicide bomber tried to assassinate the Prince by detonating a bomb that he had concealed in his rectal cavity. The Prince survived. Needless to say the bomber gave new meaning to the phrase "blow it out your butt." WARNING: The end of the document contains very graphic pictures of the remains of the "butt bomber."
Rectal Bomber Document
Gods help us all.
*Term first coined, AFAIK, by Scott Bieser.